A new law was supposed to help people earn time off their sentences, but poor implementation is leaving some locked up

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2024

This article describes how people in Illinois prisons believe they are not getting the full sentence reductions allowed under a new law that gives credit for participating in education, work, and other programs. As many as 1,000 people who are still in custody could be eleigible for immediate release if they received proper sentence recalculations.

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